https://maisonbisson.com/tags/nuclear-power/ Recent content in nuclear power on MaisonBisson Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:49:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-and-a-day/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:49:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-and-a-day/ Mark Nelson’s Pripyat series on flickr is full of the pictures of desolation that people seem to be looking for as we solemnly honor the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-ago-today/ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-ago-today/ Twenty years ago today at 1:23:44, the Chernobyl NPP reactor number four exploded. Five thousand tons of lead, sand, and other materials were dropped on the resulting fire in an attempt to stop the spread of the radioactive cloud. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-disaster-20-years-later/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:24:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-disaster-20-years-later/ Nearly 20 years after the initial events of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26 1986, the story is still unfolding. https://maisonbisson.com/post/homer-simpson-nuclear-safety-simulator/ Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:10:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/homer-simpson-nuclear-safety-simulator/ Here: have at it with a Swedish nuclear power plant simulator. Raise and lower the control rods, turn pumps on and off, open and close valves, just make sure you don’t blowup anything. https://maisonbisson.com/post/60-years-later/ Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:00:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/60-years-later/ In what was to be the final act of World War II in the Pacific, the United States made the first and only use of nuclear power as a weapon in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th (US dates), 1945. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-tour/ Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:30:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-tour/ update: there’s more pictures, even some video, and a bundle more nuclear and Chernobyl-related stories.